Glacier Bay serves steaks, seafood and traditional favorites with a modern twist. Signature GB menu items include House Prime Rib, Boneless Bacon Wrapped Center Cut Pork Loin, Grilled & Hand Battered Shrimp, Sauk Steak Salad, Handmade Onion Rings and Breaded Mushrooms. Place for holidays Provides Greate Places for Adventurs. The bar menu has an extensive bottled beer selection, diverse wine list and specialty drinks including the Glacier Bay Lemonade and Pelican Punch.Glacier Bay is located on Black Hawk Lake by Sac Beach and a dock is available for guests who would like to travel to Glacier Bay by boat. The restaurant sits beside Boulders Inn & Suites as well, making it a convenient dining option for hotel guests.Glacier Bay was named for the glacial activity that formed Black Hawk Lake thousands of years ago. Near the end of the last ice age, the last of five great glacial advances moved into the area now known as Sac County. These ancient glaciers carved the lake bottom which was filled with water when the ice melted. Black Hawk Lake is known to be the southernmost glacial lake in the western hemisphere.
History & Culture of Glacier Bay
Long before the present national park, the Huna Tlingit people lived in Glacier Bay. Among the evidence of their traditional activities are trees that were stripped of their bark for a variety of uses.Glacier Bay is a Great Place For Vacations. You can read more about these trees, which are still growing around the lagoon in Bartlett Cove, by clicking on the picture.Pioneer ecologist William S. Cooper of the University of Minnesota conducted studies of plant succession beginning in 1916, and was instrumental in the move to have the area protected. Here you can read Dr. Cooper’s first-person account of his intensive lobbying effort, which met many obstacles but was ultimately successful. Cooper also details his losing fight to prohibit mining in the newly created national monument.
Nature & Science of Glacier Bay
Sailing through Glacier Bay today, you travel along shorelines and among islands that were completely covered by ice just over 200 years ago. When Captain George Vancouver charted adjacent waters of Icy Strait in 1794, he and his crew described what we now call Glacier Bay as just a small five-mile indent in a gigantic glacier that stretched off to the horizon. That massive glacier was more than 4,000 feet thick in places, up to 20 miles wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St. Elias mountain range. By 1879, however, naturalist John Muir discovered that the ice had retreated more than 30 miles forming an actual bay. By 1916, the Grand Pacific Glacier – the main glacier credited with carving the bay – had melted back 60 miles to the head of what is now Tarr Inlet.
